Recent content by Haus

The problem is fewer and fewer dealers are keeping a readily available supply of "parts". The last time I went to my dealer it was for a worrisome sound coming from the transmission. They kept the car for a day and came back with "Looks to be an issue in the transmission, our only option from...

Well... if you wanted to go "wow"... Sealed Concrete countertop with a blue stone and glass mosaic inlay. You can choose the colors and design of the mosaic inlay to match her blue counters. I've seen it done on bar counters, some indoor/outdoor kitchens, and an island. Done right is can...

That "old people granite" is very similar to what we used in our kitchen, and it's still looking just fine a long time later. Although ours is a little lighter, still earthtone base and not white/gray based. Our "old people granite": Then again, our Kitchen is done in earthtones and not...

When I rebuilt my detatched garage I did this, Spray paint to mark each stud since on the concrete floor and ceiling above. I cannot thumbs up this idea enough. In my case it wasn't drywall, it was OSB, but same concept.

Yes, but if it's just a logistics and delivery (and possibly service, but that's another story) thing I think Tesla has pretty effectively shown you don't need the middle man. Between online sales of goods, and advances in services I think we're kinda entering the end times for "middle men".

What kind of news? Sounds like a job for my WCSG (Worst Case Scenario Gland) : China sees Us involvement in the ME as overextending the US defensive umbrella and makes a move on Taiwan. Taiwan then does as they have threatened and blow the fabs rather than hand them back to China...

I'm facing the same thing. You have my empathy sir. Mom's in her 70's. Getting to the point she forgets quickly. In a 30 minute car drive she'll bring up the same thing 3 times, usually something like "My friend Chris has a group of ladies she's hanging out with a lot". My sister lives with...

I think at one point in the past there might have been some justification for the distributor/dealer model. I see it in my industry. The traditional cybersecurity model was Vendor produces, Disti distributes (as it's name), and resellers sell. Back when this started it made sense because no...

Of you'll be able to just go, customize your ride on line, do the financing through your bank or the manufacturer, and have it delivered... We can only hope to survive this long enough for the courts to see the error of these ways my friends.

You can. But with current coding technology that has it's issues. With fresh "code from scratch" it seems to do much better than with "Maintenance coding" tasks. It's not the old language itself (COBOL) that I see as a problem. It's that a lot of older coding is, to say the least, somewhat...

When those senior operators and coders who are writing and running those archaic systems retire/die this will pose problems for AI driven dev systems in that many of those old systems have evolved "organically" over time (i.e. horribly and often ill documented at best), and the newer devs have...

Essential gear for the IT helpdesk person around the office....

If you can imagine, I know for a fact a HUGE swatch of the federal reserve bank system still runs on COBOL. I know where they hire people for it, and have been doing so since I was a child apparently.

That's already here. I am watching a customer I have supported in the past who was a BPO (read : call center outsourcer) getting absolutely put in the cuck chair by AI based "Call Centers" that are coming in at 30-40% the cost and in many cases providing service customers like more.. Here's...

I'm in sales, a supposed job that combines both technical capabilities and "soft skills" , the latter is supposedly "immune to AI" if I listen to others in my career. But even I realize I might be LUCKY being old in that I only have around 5 years tops left in an active working career because...